Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam

• rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We don’t want this place to be Reddit 2.0, we want it to be it’s own thing.

  One of the things that I truly despise is the use of the “Royal We”. It’s a cheap rhetorical trick to make it sound like your opinion and your preference is an universal truth. It’s quite simple to disprove that what you want is not necessarily what everyone else wants.

  For example:

  repost bots add nothing of value to the platform in my experience.

  • Thanks to mirrors, I could simply get rid of all the 40+ subreddits that I used to subscribe to lurk around. E.g, I don’t to participate in discussions on /r/soccer, but I do like to follow some of the discussions and I do like having the posts to see game highlights, match threads, etc.
  • Mirrors allow us to have content protected and out of Reddit’s control. If Reddit decides to tighten up their grip on the API even more, the mirrored content will be already safe from their hands.

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  • Masimatutu@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have never used Reddit so I don’t know what experience it is you want, but couldn’t you achieve the same thing in a better way by browsing on Teddit?

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The whole point is to leave Reddit. Just changing the frontend is not enough.

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      • Masimatutu@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It isn’t a client, it’s a frontend. You’re not registered and you’re not contributing to traffic.

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mirrors allow us to have content protected and out of Reddit’s control. If Reddit decides to tighten up their grip on the API even more, the mirrored content will be already safe from their hands.

    I think you are confusing people here by saying mirror. They think about it as another frontend.

    I suggest to use Matrix terms. Here what you have would be one-way bridging

    One-way bridging is rare, but can be used to represent a bridge that is bridging from the remote system into matrix. This is common when the remote system does not permit message posting, or is simply not capable of handling posting outside their system. The users bridged from the remote system often appear as virtual users in matrix, as is the case with matrix-appservice-instagram.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The people complaining can’t even understand the concept of curating their own feed, do you think they will understand if we start talking about bridges and double-puppets?

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      • squiblet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Seems odd to claim that people don’t understand the concept of using Subscribed to filter their feed, when they’ve made a conscious choice to change from the default to All. It seems you don’t understand the concept of browsing “All” or why people would choose that.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Asking someone to stop spamming is a form of curation.

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      • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        At least it will help against those who accidentally(or intentionally) say “just use Teddit”/other frontend.

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• uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Creators of some federated network disagree with you

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  • AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reddit is actively working to wall their garden though.

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s why mentioned federatied network bridges store all bridged messages on instance with all the metadata. This is same: bridged posts and comments are stored with metadata. So even if reddit will nuke bridge, already bridged posts will stay.

      This also reduces switching cost from reddit to lemmy and turns lemmy into “continue conversation here” button. And according to guy who defined enshittification, low switching cost is how social networks gather TONS of people.

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      • AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ok but then instead of encouraging people to Lemmy you are encouraging to matrix which will have the same issue bridging to Reddit.

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